St. Paul daily globe., 1887-05-24

ronto. We earnestly request that you take
rest under the best medical care.
1t was signed by Justin Mccarthy, L.
M. Healey and Il. p. O'Connor.
George Collins, an Englishman who
addressed the meeting, aStOniShed the
audience by the
BITTERNESS OF HIS ATTACK
on Lord Lansdowne. Frederick Walters,
president of the Iron MOulderS' union,
j. Racey and Edward Williams, all
Englishmen, and William Derry, an
Orangeman, made speeches, after which
a resolution c0ndemning Lord Lans--
dOwne was passed. A crowd of several
hundred collected in Jackson street, OPP
pOSite the rink, just as was the case at
Kingston while the meeting was going
on. They were Oragemen, but the
| chief of police drove them away and
| allowed no one to stand on the block.
What he did probably prevented riot,
| for had there had been attack the men
who met O'Brien at the depot and who
were on hand in hundreds, marching
up and down on the side streets, would
have done terrible execution. O'Brien's
body guard in Hamilton was an
organized realty. All was well up
to this, but the worst was to come,
Another attack was made upon O'Brlen,
this time with firearms, and again there
was another miraculous escape; this es-
cape, however, being accompanied by a
wound in the wrist of one of O'Brlen S
faithful companions. O'Brien was sit
ting down after having made vigorous
speech in return for the vote of thanks
passed, and Dennis Kilbride was ON his
sect engaged in a like task. Just then
man was observed leaning over
and whispering something in O'Brien'S
ear. 1t was noticed O'Brien shook his
head as though in dissent. The man
persisted. Half of the audience now
rose to their feet, peering over each
others heads, anXiously striving to catch
a glimpse of what was going forward on
the platform. The chairman tried to
quell the anxiety by asking the audience
to hear Mr.. Kilbride, but the crowd OF
1000 people. primed with angry feelings
that have lasted since the two successive
attacks on O'Brien at Kingston and
| Toronto, were not so easily quieted
down. They had noticed that the man
whispered to O'Brien and they were evil
IDENTITY determined to see what it meant.
! The man again made a silent appeal.
whatever twas, and again Mr. o O'Brien
shook his head. Still one more appeal
was made. and this time Mr.. O'Brien
seem to acQuieSce. The first
SIGN OF COIIMOTIoN
was when Mr.. O'Brien got up and left
the platform. This was in response to
the request several times made to him,
which he had already refused. 1t was
the idea of some officious and meddle-
some mana plan which he had to save
Mr.. O'Brien's life. The plan was to
leave the rink by narrow alley, then
reach McNabb street and jump into a
carriage in waiting and drive to the ho-
tel. 1t was the first time SO far during
the tour that he did not go out the
ordinary way, and the plan well nigh
was covered one, besides Mr.. O'Brien
were MeSSrS. Mcmahon and ROc'Xa, OF
the local branch of the National league,
and Dennis Kilbride. On the drivers
seat were John Nelson, who held the
reins. and T. p O'Brien. AS they
whipped up the horses. crowd SUD
denly appeared. This crowd proved
unfriendIy, for no sooner had Mr..
O'Brien and his friends taken
their seats than they set up
the usual kissing and groan-
a concerted signal to a group of five
men who lurked around the market
buildings in Market square. The men,
who hiSsed and groaned, followed the
carriage, and as it wheeled into Market
square there was sudden click, the
horses pranced, and flash of light sud
denly OverSpread group of buildings
where the men lurked. The reins
dropped out of John Nelson's hands,
and with the exclamation,
''MY GOD AM SHOT"
he fell forward on the seat. Crash,
crash, quick as lightning and through
bright flame sped the bullets from two
revolvers until eight shots had been
fired. Mr.. O'Brien stretched forward to
look out. and as he did so ball whizzed
by his face and passed through the op-
pOsite window. 7. p. O'Brien, Nelson S
companion, who had been amazed and
daZed, now grasped the reins and lashed
the horses through the square into James
street and down to the hotel, corner
of James and Merrill streets. Here
there was a hostile crowd who again
hooted as the party within tried to open
jumped over the door, and drawing a
revolver, held the crowd at bay while
Mr.. O'Brien and his friends
were making their exit from
the carriage, also by the same un-
comfortable way. AS the party stepped
into the corridor of the hotel volley OF
rotten eggs was hurled at them. but nc
one was touched. Chief McKinnon and
his men now rushed up, but all was
| over. Nelson was taken TO The city nos
pital. DR.. James White
EXTRACTED THE BULLET.
He says the wound is dangerous. II
is on the left wrist. No arrests were
made. When Mr.. O'Brien reached his
room he was cheerful, and nobody to
look at him would have supposed that
he had just escaped from the last of a
series of attempts to take his life
Many expressed the opinion-O'B O'Brien
himself among the number, and the
chief of police, too, that the men whe
fred the shots came from Toronto
There is not the slightest evidence
offered in proof of this. There areru-
mors that some Orangemen did reach
here this evening from Toronto, which
is only forty miles away. Many are Of
the opinion, though, that Hamilton
will have to shoulder the blame. The
men who stood opposite the hotel and
pelted rotten eggs certainly belong here
As this dispatch is being written there
is great deal of excitement
i'm the streets. Fire crackers and
powder are being exploded in all direc.
tions and firearms discharged, kind oil
preliminary celebration of the Queeli's
birthday. Michael Allen, small boy
had his face laid open by a blowof q
stick. O'Brien returns to Niagara Falls
Tuesday, where he will take rest and
proceed thence to Montreal to attend
the open air meeting Thursday.